The federal prison system currently includes 11 prisons called Criminal Alien Requirement facilities. Built to house non-citizens convicted of federal crimes – many of whom were arrested for simply crossing the border – CAR prisons are managed on a day-to-day basis not by the Bureau of Prisons, but by private companies. These privatized facilities are held to lower standards than others in the BOP system – with devastating results for the men held there. These men are suffering from shocking neglect of their health... Men sick with cancer, HIV/AIDS, mental disabilities, and liver and heart disease faced critical delays in obtaining care that may have saved their lives...

Join Detention Watch Network, Grassroots Leadership, the ACLU, and The Nation in calling on the White House to end the shadow private prison system.